Are you ready? Here they are:
1. "Bioethical" violations such as birth control2. "Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
Okay, great. Just what the Catholic Church needs, more rules--more ways to turn more people away and condemn more sinners. I guess this is an effort to keep up with the times, but it actually makes them more irrelevant, I think. It's not that I am opposed to most of these rules, anyway, but I am opposed to even more Catholic doctrine. Do they really need to hold our hands like this and tell us that pollution and creating poverty are bad? Well, actually...okay, never mind the government and its cronies...do they really need to set down these rules for everyone else? I think it's a power play. They're throwing down the gauntlet. Pretty soon, they'll bring back papal indulgences and we can all buy our tickets to heaven! Phew, that's so much easier than actually being a good person.
Besides, they should take their own advice first, like in #6. Exhibit A: um, The Vatican. The Archdiocese of St. Louis deserves honorable mention, too (St. Stanislaus, anyone?). Also, I'm pretty sure the lack of #1 potentially contributes heavily to both #5 and #7. And as long as there are ethical standards, stem cell research can help us more than hurt us...
Eh, forget it. The pope is infallible, and the bishop is probably close. Let's all just stop thinking and let the church do it for us! Thank God...I mean, the pope...I mean, the bishop? Uh, something like that.
1 comment:
While I want to believe that the intent is really to get rid of some of the major problems our world currently faces, I think this will only cause us to have another president like GWB, because people can't vote with their heads when the church is telling them they'll go to hell if they don't vote Christian. It's so sad.
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